July 12
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Art and culture
- 1573 - Spanish forces under the Duke of Alba capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.
- 1920 - last episode of Les Mains d’Orlac published
- 1962 - Rolling Stones are founded
- 1966 - London Film-Makers' Co-operative Committee meeting at which a 5 page draft constitution is written for the LFMC
- 1967 - fourth and last Paris Festival of Free Expression starts
- 1979 - Disco Demolition Night
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Births
- 1854 - George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
- 1880 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
- 1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
- 1886 - Raoul Hausmann Austrian artist and one of the key figures of Dada. (d. 1971)
- 1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
- 1895 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
- 1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (d. 1973)
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Deaths
- 1536 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher
- 1643 - Jerome Duquesnoy, Flemish artist (b. 1597)
- 1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
- 1973 - Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
- 1979 - Minnie Riperton, American soul singer (b. 1947)
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